Thursday, March 05, 2009

To be continued

Children love to write stories which end with “to be continued.” I find them a little maddening. I like things to begin and end. But often a lot of what we do in school just does not fit neatly into one hour or even one day. So, much to my annoyance, often I have to end my day with “to be continued.”

This was just that sort of day. We worked on a lot of activities and projects which may not have started today and certainly did not finish today. For example, we did some work on our play. We concentrated a bit of improving the singing, and I saw a lot of improvement when we practiced certain vocal techniques. But we’ll be working on this for the next two weeks. Intensely! To be continued….

We worked on our literature circle books. I tried a slightly different format for reading and responding to the books. It needs a bit of tweaking, though I think it is promising. And most of the groups did not get as far as they planned with their books today. So, as recess approached, what could we say? To be continued…..

We started on an art project today. We had a good discussion about perspective and six different techniques artists use to create the illusion of depth and distance. We started on the final product here, but we only had time for the rough sketch of the outline. So, to be continued….

Homework:  (1) Do “Add Decimals,” Math, page 385 (2) Do “Subtract Decimals,” Math, page 387. (3) Do Science worksheets.

3 comments:

Paul Smith said...

Perhaps they're all destined to be writers for ongoing TV series - always leaving you hanging at the end waiting for the next episode!

BTW, I've been thinking about ways for you to get more comments on your blog. How about having a little 'contest" for the kids? Whichever kid's parents make the most interesting comment in a week/month, that kid gets a small "prize" - maybe get off homework for a day. That would sure get the kids to bug their parents to comment! ;-)

Cheers,

Paul

John D Bassett said...

Life with children has a certain TV show quality already. We have a daily episode of CSI: Somebody Stole my Pencil.

I'll keep the contest idea in mind. It might work better as a drawing, and each comment provides an opportunity to win. I'd hate to be judging who makes the wittiest or most intelligent comment.

Anonymous said...

5 X 5 is 25. That's a winner, isn't it? BTW, I'm mad. It's been days, and THE PENCIL THIEF IS STILL LOOSE! Why does he always pick on me...